Something from Childhood (W/out Your Age) That Youngsters Wouldn't Understand
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Without revealing your age, name something from your childhood that youngsters today would not understand....
Foe me : Taping the charts trying to cut out the talking on a Sunday night.
Only having 4 channels on tv to choose from, so being super excited when a 5th one was released!
MelissaLee1963 oh wow! You must have had to really work hard to entertain yourselves back then. Although you were probably all outside being fit and healthy 
snoogans888 played board games, tennis, rode bikes on the common a lot,swam at the lido and had a school girl band.
MelissaLee1963 Same here, and the channels shut down at 11/12.
No 24 hour TV back in the day
TheChimp And they played the National Anthem before close down and you stood up for the Queen.
Ice on the bedroom windows in the morning and getting dressed in bed to keep warm.
Hanging your clothes on a pulley standing in the kitchen getting dressed for school with all the gas rings and oven door open to stay warm
Not having your entire music collection on an iPod or Smart Phone.
I used to walk around with a portable CD player - I say walked, I mean tiptoed, since the slightest movement would result in the disc skipping.
Taking sandwiches and riding my bike for miles and miles around all the local villages and being gone all day! (Age 10)
Mobile phones weren't around when I was young and I didn't have a duvet for the bed just lots of blankets as no central heating.
Not being able to use the landline if someone was on the phone and having to use dial up to connect to the internet. Not being able to use the internet on your phones, no cameras on your phones.
MelissaLee1963 When we had AOL it was 1 pence a minute to use the internet. Doesn't sound like much when you put it that way, but when you think about it, it's actually quite expensive. Still, we didn't really use the internet all that much in those days.
MelissaLee1963 I remember the excitement of channel 5 coming and when it started it was crap lol honestly now I don't know what I would do without my sky when I go to my dad's he's only got Freeview I have to ask him to put the kids channel on 
Dial up Internet, phone boxes not mobiles and we only had 4 channels available where we lived.
Midnightflower AOL Dial-Up. heh
If someone picked up the phone the internet connection would drop.
This extends to fairly basic things. For example, a lot of children are now unable to tell the time on analogue (dial) clocks.
- metro.co.uk/2018/04/25/teachers-say-children-cant-tell-time-on-analogue-clocks-any-more-7497307/
56K dial up with that bloody sound and if anyone picked up the phone, goodbye internet!
Having to wait for computer games to load & the awful noise they made.
Being able to pick up the phone upstairs while someone was on it downstairs & listen in.
The only toilet we had was in the garden. Freezing cold some days. Full of spiders and very dark as we never had outdoor lighting options back then.
Sheets and blankets, whistling kettle on the stove, toasting bread under grill, net curtains (nearly all blinds etc nowadays), a dial up telephone, camera film you get developed, carbon paper if you want more than one copy of a typed document. hand written letters with stamps on the envelope that you got the next day instead of instantly, or the day after when 2nd class post came in!
Toast under the grill..seriously nostalgic .Dial up telephones .I used to use a 7 letter word and dial people randomly.Latent cold caller lol. I still do hand written letters.
TV's with no colour and no remote control. A dial to change channels (not that there were many as mentioned). An aerial on top in the hope you might get a decent picture. A screen 14 inches wide or should i say square and a huge back with all the technical stuff. If you left it on too long it would get too hot but that wasn't too much of an issue as there where no programmes at all for several hours.
My father rented a 24 inch colour tv from Radio Rentals to watch the Olympics. I was at Brownie camp and oh so excited to come home.
I remember being the child that had to adjust the tv top aerial and once you had a good picture tip toeing away in case it moved. Also the dial on the telephone, it took ages to dial anybody's number, but you had to dial it in full . I can still remember loads of numbers from then, now, once it's in your phone you don't need to remember any of them.
Yes I still remember my mums phone no from 40 years ago.Can just about remember my own mobile no now!
I remember that you sometimes had to slap the top of the set to kickstart the TV when the valves were on there way out
MelissaLee1963 I remember as I child we used to answer the phone by reciting our own phone number - it was only a few digits back then so didn’t take long, but that’s not the case now!
half penny sweets 
no central heating MelissaLee1963 Aye, but if you didn't eat them pretty quickly, they used to turn into one big sticky sherbert pip
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